On Friday, April 29, the Western Maine Labor Council remembered 30 workers who died on the job in Maine in 2011. Here are are their names and the context in which they died.
Randy Allard, 43, Bucksport, April 11, 2011
A delivery truck driver, Allard was killed in a rollover accident on the causeway between Deer Isle and Little Deer Isle.
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Peter Barnum, 35, Farmington, N.H., July 11, 2011
A truck driver, Barnum was killed in a collision with an Amtrak train in North Berwick.
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Janice Brown, 54, Rockland, May 23, 2011
A Department of Health and Human Services caseworker, Brown was killed when her state-owned car crossed the centerline and swerved into the path of a loaded dump truck.
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Ernest Bubar, 55, New Sharon, July 1, 2011
A farmer, Bubar was killed by a bull at Sandy River Farms as he tried to herd the animal back to the farm
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Travis Butler, 37, St. Albans, Sept. 15, 2011
A truck driver, Butler died after his dump truck was struck by the trailer of a tractor-trailer that jackknifed on a sharp curve.
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Donald Campbell, 56, Waldoboro, Oct. 5, 2011
A retired Army veteran and recreational pilot, Campbell died unexpectedly while on Mantinicus.
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Stephen Coleman, 59, Dennistown Plantation, Sept. 20, 2011
A campground owner piloting a 14-foot boat, Coleman drowned in Moose River.
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Danny Dodge, 23, Jackson, July 27, 2011
A construction worker, Dodge was killed when he was crushed by a backhoe while working on a natural gas line project in Bangor.
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Jessica Eldridge, 36, Benton, Jan. 19, 2011
A teacher in SAD 49, Eldridge died in a car accident in Unity Township on the way to work.
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Cassius Fall, 84, Enfield, July 17, 2011
A World War II veteran, there is no information available on Fall’s death.
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Randy Gicott; no information available
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Daryl Gordon, 60, Eagle Lake, March 24, 2011
A Maine Warden Service pilot, Gordon died in the line of duty when his plane crashed on Clear Lake in a remote section of Piscataquis County.
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Taylor Griffin, 40, Portland, Oct. 16, 2011
A gourmet food merchant, Griffin died in a car crash during a business trip to California’s wine country.
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Weston Haskell, 58, Frankfort, Aug. 18, 2011
A construction worker, Haskell died when a dump truck backed into him in Searsport.
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William Jordan, 38, Holden, April 19, 2011
A logger, Jordan died after he was pinned between a skidder and a tree while working a forest job in Orrington.
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Richard Kemp, 70, Monmouth, Sept. 27, 2011
A contractor, Kemp died from inhaling sewer gases while cleaning a cement tank in Kennebunkport.
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John Ledue, 51 Portland, June 3, 2011
A construction worker, Ledue died after falling off scaffolding while removing bricks from a building in Auburn.
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Richard Lemont, 43, Phippsburg, April 7, 2011
A clam-digger and caretaker, Lemont’s body was found on a beach in Phippsburg two weeks after he was last seen setting off into the Kennebec River in a small boat.
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Arnold Nagel, 58, Calais, Nov. 30, 2011
A heavy equipment operator, there is no information available on Nagel’s death.
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John Polackwich, 63, Saco, Dec. 18, 2011
A state park manager, Polackwich died peacefully at his residence at Two Lights State Park.
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Stephen Powers, 56, Norway, Jan. 13, 2011
A municipal highway worker, Powers died unexpectedly. No other information is available.
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David Remington, 58, Acton, Jan. 3, 2011
A volunteer Shapleigh firefighter, Remington was killed in a car crash while responding to a rescue call.
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Mark Richard; no information available.
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Harold Sargent, 38, Somesville, Sept. 2011
A contractor, there is no information available on Sargent’s death.
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Udo Schneider, 53, Sangerville, Nov. 29, 2011
A building maintenance worker, Schneider was shot to death by his ex-wife’s husband outside Hilltop Manor, where he had worked for more than a decade.
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Judy Stevens, 55, Whiting, Jan. 28, 2011
Owner of Whiting Store, Stevens died after falling down a flight of stairs. She lived above the store.
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Winfield Studley, 58, of Windsor, Sept. 27, 2011
A contractor, Studley died from inhaling sewer gases while cleaning a cement tank in Kennebunkport.
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Matthew Tushin, 41, Kennebunkport, March 23, 2011
An education technician at Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Tushin died unexpectedly while working his second job at the Shaw’s distribution center in Wells.
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Norman Tuttle, 45, Presque Isle, April 19, 2011
A commercial truck driver, Tuttle was killed when his rig transporting a load of potatoes failed to negotiate a turn and collided with a truck in Pitman.
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Jerry Wallace, 68, Bath, Jan. 4, 2011
A fisherman, Wallace died at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.
* SOURCE: The names of workers who died in Maine last year was compiled by the Western Maine Labor Council. Only four of these deaths — Danny Dodge, Weston Haskell, Richard Kemp and Winfield Studley — fell under the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for safety and health investigations.
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